OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14503437
RED TIGER TRUCKING CO.
SAXMAN, KS·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed between pipe rack and truck bed
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was helping to load two 30 foot long sections of well pipe storage r ack onto a utility, or junk, rack. The sections of storage rack had been set dow n atop a pile of auxiliary pipes and nipples previously stored in the junk rack. When Employee #1 released the winch line from the storage rack sections, one of the two soft rope bindings broke, and the storage rack sections toppled in oppo site directions due to the uneven surface they were on. Employee #1 jumped from the top of the junk rack to the ground and was caught between the tail end of th e winch truck's bed and a falling storage rack section. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 31 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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